“Shadow workers” in Crimea are profiting from the coronavirus
While the largest Crimean health resorts and the famous children’s camp “Artek” are ceasing operations due to quarantine, illegal hotels are trying to make money from the epidemic situation and continue to illegally receive guests on the peninsula.
Natalya Penkovskaya, head of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing for Crimea and Sevastopol, announced this on the Crimea 24 television channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Yes, today indeed the business that operates within the legal framework has stopped operating. They have finished accepting people on vacation, they are finishing the recovery of those people who arrived before the introduction of restrictive measures, and our hotels are starting to empty.
Our children's health centers will not be launched within the time frame that we are accustomed to seeing every year in the summer children's health campaign. Since April, Artek has been closing its doors to children. This is not only in Artek, it is in all all-Union health centers.
This is a test for the entire system. When we talk about the fact that yes, we have hoteliers, people who call themselves hoteliers, but they work in the shadows. This is a shadow business that does not pay appropriate taxes, which ultimately do not go towards economic development or healthcare development; now they are using this time to enrich themselves,” Penkovskaya said.
Crimea's "shadowy" profiteers are profiting from the coronavirus.